Improvement in combined chairs, cradles, and lounges



C. H, LEVY. Combined Chairs, Cradles, and Lounges.

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THE GRAPHIC CQPHUTO'LITLZQiQ-I PARK FLACEJLY,

NI'IED STATES PATENT DEF-ICE.

CHARLES H. LEVY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,002, dated July 11, 1874; application filed September 10, 1873.

- a rocking-chair and a cradle ii such a manner that the saidrocking-chair may be transformed into a cradle, and also into anarmchair or a .lounge, as may be required, the object of this myinvention being to produce one piece of furniture that may serve severalpurposes, and saving the storing of a cradle after being used and forthe time not needed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rockingchair embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a cradle, also embodying my invention.manner in which a lounge may be produced. Figs. 4 and 5 represent detailparts of my invention.

Ais the frame of the combined rockingchair and cradle, which frameshould be substantially constructed to resist the pressure impressedupon it by the seat when in use. The frame A is provided at the frontand at the back with extension-slides s 00, similar to the slides of anextension-table, to allow the sides of the frame to be extended when itis to be used as a cradle, or to be brought near when used as a chair. Sis the seat, fastened to the frame A, at the front and at the back ofthe same, by means of the parts 8 s of the extension-slides. a brepresent the back of the rocking chair. They are also to serve as sidesof the cradle, or as the bottom of the lounge. They are fastened to theframeA by means of the screws 0 c and d (I, as may be seen in thedrawings. m and a are bars fastened at the upper and at the lower partsat the back of the parts a b to hold them in joint when in use as a backof a rocking-chair, or as the bottom of a lounge. Theymay also be usedas laths when a cradle is made, as may be seen in Fig 2. a a representornaments of the parts a and I). They are to serve as legs to the partsa b when used as the bottom of a lounge. llare the legs of the combinedrocking-chair and cradle, provided at their ends with the pins t tfitting into the recesses e 6 Fig. 3 is a View, showing the and it, withwhich the runners r 1' are provided, and-thus allowing the latter to befastened to the said legs by means of the screws 0 0. It is plainly tobe seen that the runners 1' 4' may be changed or even left off from thelegs I I, as may be required.

When used as a rocking-chair, the extension-slides s a: are to be closedto bring the sides of the frame A as near together as the seat S willpermit. The back, formed by the parts a b joining at the center of theback, are held together at the upper part by the bar m, and at the lowerpart by the barn. The back a bis then to be fastened to the frame A atthe bacl -bearings o o by means of the screws 0 c and d d. The runners rr are to be fastened to the legs I l by placing the pins t t of the legsinto the recesses'e c, with which the runners are provided,tasteningthem by means of the screws 0 0.

WVhen an arm-chair is to be formed, the screws 0 0 are to be withdrawnfrom the run ners r 4", allowing the latter to be removed from the legs1 l. Casters may then be attached to the pins t 1.

When a cradle is to be made, the runners r 1' have to be attached againto the legs by placing the pins t t into the recesses t i, and

fastening them by means of the screws 0 0.

The back a b has to'be removed, and is to be separated to become thesides of the cradle. The sides of the frame are to be extended bydrawing out the extension-slides s w, fastened to the front and to theback of the frame A, and thus changing the sides of the frame into thehead and foot parts of the cradle. The parts a I), being separated, areto be inserted as sides of the cradle, and fastened to the front and tothe back bearings 11 o by means of the screws 0 c and d (I. The bars mand a may then serve as laths at the interstices between the seat S andthe head and foot parts of the cradle, as may be seen in Fig. 2.

When alounge is to be made, the side parts of the frame A are to bebrought together as close as the sea-t S will allow. After having theparts a I) separated from the frame and joined together by means of thebars m and a, to serve as the bottom of the lounge, they are to befastened to the back-bearings v o by means of the screws (1 d, as may beseen in Fig. 3 of the drawings, allowing a and I) to claim for me as newand desire to secure by swing up and down. The ornaments a a fast-Letters Patentened to the same may thus be used as the The combinationof the frame A and the exlower legs of the lounge. tension-slides s 00,together with the separable The utility of this furniture is withoutquesparts a b, as hereinbefore described, and for tion, as any one canchange it into a rocking the purpose set forth.

chair, armchair, cradle, or lounge without any CHARLES H. LEVY. troublewhatsoever, and thus being suitable \Vitnesses: for Various purposes.LoUIs HEBLING,

Having now fully described my invention, 1 S. J. I-IERSEHMANN.

